Best player with worst BH

Who is the best player, I guess won the most Grand Slams with the worse BH. Courier comes to mind although it was good on the return of serve. Other maybe lendl? Both had massive forehands so not sure if it was just because its all relative and we just couldnt help but notice the difference off the other wing or was their BH truly that bad. Others?

Sampras hands down. That backhand barely kept him in the rallies. Luckily for him most of the surfaces were fast so he could dictate play with his serve and forehand before someone got to his backhand. On clay it was completely useless.

I forgot VG won the Australian though it wasn't in any manner a "Major" in 1977 but, yes, his backhand sucked especially by modern standards. He could rally with it (much of the time with a slice) and he could use it effectively to get to the net but he couldn't really hit much of a passing shot with it. But then in that period quite a few players had weak passing shots on the BH side. On the women's tour, could Shriver even hit a topspin backhand ?

Arias had a crap and very weird backhand and he did win the Italian at a time when it mattered more than it does now. But if you want to get into non-Major crap BHs the list is a long one.

I think Fed has a spectacular backhand only if he has to hit 2 or 3 in a row.If some palyer is capable enough to force him to hit backhands repeatedly,He will either hit a winner or much more likely will commit a mistake or shank(his favorite error) it.He doesn't have the consistency of say, a Wawrinka.So first 3-4(if he has to hit in arow) are good but beyond that for the greatest player,his backhand is awful.

I can put a series of Pete's backhand winners and it will look just as good as Fed's. The thing is highlight reels or a result of 1-2 match cannot conclude whether any player has a great backhand or not.

Who is the best player, I guess won the most Grand Slams with the worse BH. Courier comes to mind although it was good on the return of serve. Other maybe lendl? Both had massive forehands so not sure if it was just because its all relative and we just couldnt help but notice the difference off the other wing or was their BH truly that bad. Others?

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Interesting that you have that perspective on Lendl - on this forum a while back there was a thread that rated Lendl's backhand as one of the greatest single handed backhands in history! No way it was a weakness instead it was both a great offensive weapon and a great defensive tool to.

Nadal never beat fed easily with that strategy maybe except for clay. It was always a fight. assuming nadals FH is like a lefty kick serve as they say. 20 lefty kick serves in a row to anyones BH is just very difficult. Obviously nole was able to handle, which is why he won those string of matches

If Fed truly has a great backhand, Nadal wouldn't beat him so easily with 1 simple strategy, pounce on the backhand. Fed's backhand is weak for a guy who won 17 majors. Deal with it.

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Nadal doesn't beat him with 1 simple strategy. That's a myth said by people with their heads up their asses.

Nadal beats him in a variety of ways, including playing incredibly annoying defense that forces Federer into errors. Federer's inside-out forehand plays right into Nadal's forehand down the line, which is Nadal's best weapon. When Federer hits a backhand down the line, Nadal is usually there to take it cross court with his own backhand, as being a lefty, he plays more towards his backhand corner. Federer's cross-court backhand plays into Nadal's forehand down the line.

Plus, there's Federer's passiveness on break points, going against Nadal, who is aggressive when staving off break points.

Heck, Federer's backhand has hurt Nadal quite a bit over the years, too. Just look at their indoor matches. Federer killed Nadal with his BH in those.

Carlos Moya and it isn't even close. His backhand was just awful. His solution was to just not hit any backhands

He made up for it by having a top 10 serve and a top 3 forehand, possibly even better than Federer or Nadal. Ridiculous forehand.

Great skill too, although he didn't use it that often. I remember Murray tried to do his cat and mouse thing with Moya and Moya just made Murray look stupid. Same thing happened with Stepanek around the same time.

Federer's backhand used to be clear weakness in his early years at tour.
People pounced on it and improved a lot. Federer now has a great backhand.
I am not sure if I can call it as weapon that can frequently force an issue,
but great backhand.

Lots of 1 handers have weakness against lefties. It just one of the toughest shots in tennis.
For example, it's extremely hard to hit down the line 1 handed
backhand, from ad court, against heavily side/top spined lefty's forehand.